By General Counsel Holly Hollman What does the election of Donald J. Trump mean for religious liberty? As with many important issues, President-elect Trump has no significant record or concrete positions on the topic. Specific church-state issues rarely arose during...

Written by Don Byrd In the Hollman Report column in the latest issue of Report From the Capital, Baptist Joint Committee General Counsel Holly Hollman dives into the debate over measles vaccinations from a religious liberty perspective. The public health concerns of...

Written by Don Byrd 2014 saw great change in the status of same-sex marriage across much of the country. While our country has to some degree merged the idea of civil and religious marriages, those changes have prompted questions about the church’s role in civil...

By General Counsel K. Hollyn Hollman The U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 Hobby Lobby decision has generated more interest in religious liberty law than any other decision in decades. As is typical of cases with lengthy opinions by a closely divided Court, it is subject...

By General Counsel K. Hollyn Hollman Depending on where you live, one of your primary religious liberty concerns may be fighting against public funding of private religious schools. Approximately a dozen states and the District of Columbia now have some kind of school...

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The Baptist Joint Committee's mission is to defend and extend God-given religious liberty for all, furthering the Baptist heritage that champions the principle that religion must be freely exercised, neither advanced nor inhibited by government.

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